{"id":3238,"date":"2003-01-08T10:47:39","date_gmt":"2003-01-08T15:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2003-01-08T10:47:39","modified_gmt":"2003-01-08T15:47:39","slug":"down_in_the_tub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/08\/down_in_the_tub.html","title":{"rendered":"Down in the Tubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetube.com\/content\/tubemap\/images\/large_print_map.gif\" alt=\"Current London Underground map (large print)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thetube.com\/content\/tubemap\/images\/large_print_map_150.gif\" align=right width=150 height=105 hspace=10 border=0 \/><\/a>The London Underground is tres cool.  But one of the coolest thing is the maps of the Underground.  <\/p>\n<p>The original maps were geographically literal, like a real map.  But the Underground folks realized early on that this caused a lot of problems, even as the system expanded, twisted on itself, and had areas where stations were close together, and others where they were far apart.<\/p>\n<p>Enter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetube.com\/content\/history\/map.asp\">Harry Beck<\/a>.  In 1933, he applied his knowledge of circuit diagrams &#8212; which represent paths symbolically, not literally &#8212; to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetube.com\/content\/history\/beckmap1.jpg\">the first modern subway map<\/a>.  That concept has been used for subway and transit maps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmata.com\/metrorail\/systemmap.cfm\">around the world <\/a>ever since, including all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetube.com\/content\/tubemap\/\">current London Underground maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But, if you <i>want <\/i>to see a geographically accurate map of the London Underground, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/03\/01\/030102geographical.html\">it does exist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>God, I love this kind of twinky stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in more info, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltmuseum.co.uk\/\">London Transport Museum <\/a>(if, ahem, you happen to be in London any time soon).  And if you think the Underground font (designed in 1916 by Edward Johnston) is cool, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.p22.com\/products\/london.html\">available <\/a>via the P22 type foundry folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The London Underground is tres cool. 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